Sermon Video Introduction: The overall tone of this psalm is unambiguously jubilant, but a number of the details are nevertheless ambiguous. This is said because my reconstruction of the players ...
The Tabernacle of David at Zion/Psalm 132
The Potency of Right Worship
Sermon Video Introduction: Many of the problems confronting modern Christians is that they diligently try to do the right thing . . . in the wrong categories. They try guitar fingering on a mandolin; ...
That He May Be Feared/Psalm 130
Sermon Video The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: There is no trouble like home-brewed trouble. Whenever we are learning how to eat our own cooking, or how to sleep in the beds we ...
From the Soil of Our Pain/Psalm 129
Sermon Video The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: One of Scripture’s great themes is the theme of deliverance. God first delivers us from the bondage of our sins, and then after ...
Psalm 128/Deuteronomic Blessing
Sermon Video The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: One of the features of the modern evangelical world is that we hear conflicting voices. On the one hand we hear those calling for ...
Psalm 127/Enemies in the Gate
The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Sermon Video Introduction: We live in a generation that wants to define family in radically perverse and demented ways. In times like this, it is easy to allow ...
Psalm 126/Like Those Who Dream
The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Sermon Video Introduction: The word eucatastrophe was coined by J.R.R. Tolkien, and it refers to a deliverance when all was thought to be lost. There was no ...
Psalm 125/Like the Mountains of Zion
The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Sermon Video Introduction: This psalm is the next in the psalms of ascent (120-134)—a psalm that would be sung as pilgrims made their way up to Jerusalem. ...
Psalm 124/Like a Bird in the Bracken
Sermon Video The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: When you consider the peril our nation is currently in, and you reflect on the fact that this psalm came up as the text for this ...
Psalm 123/Obedience and Vindication
The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: This psalm contains a marked contrast between the eyes of faith, which look to the Lord, the God of all heaven, and the blind eyes of insolent unbelief, which see nothing as they ought to. Unbelief and pride are the chains that anchor the ungodly soul to this earth, …